[nflug] update to POS BIOS

[Robert Wolfe]

Cyber Source wrote:
> What I thought was a problem with the BIOS and ACPI on the Acer Laptop 
> in question turned out to be a problem with ALSA. And after a few 
> searches on google found the suggestion to update ALSA to 4.07b and 
> voila! Now with not special boot commands, all works beautifully on 
> this laptop, even the onboard web cam. For anyone interested here is 
> the link on newegg for the laptop. Acer Aspire, dual core amd64, 17" 
> screen, NVIDIA graphics, scroll button on touchpad, firewire, svideo, 
> pcmcia (newer mini), dvd-rw, wireless (works natively and with 
> ndiswrapper(seems to do the wep better), onboard web cam for $699.00 
> and it all rocks with Ubuntu Gutsy (yes gotta upgrade the alsa but 
> that was a snap) with free shipping? I think it's an awesome deal 
> although bionic eyes wouldn't like it cause it wont do 1920xwhatever....
>
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16834115413
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Sounds like a good deal.  I just bought a new Dell Vostro 1500 myself.  
Not that bad of a laptop, would be better with Linux on it, though, but 
I don't think that some of the niceties that this particular lapbox 
provides (such as the on-board cellular) will work just yet with Linux.  
Bummer, really.

On a lighter side of things, noticed that Key Liquors in the Value Plaza 
has Red Hat-powered POS terminals -- there is a "Powered by Red Hat" 
sticker on both of them :)  Thought it was a bit interesting to see POS 
terminals powered by Red Hat or any distro of Linux for that matter.

Enough of my rambling.  Have a great, sunny morning everyone!

-- 
Robert Wolfe
Systems Administrator
LocalNet Corp.
CoreComm Internet Services
(517) 664-8924